Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.
Charity is the note that resolves the discord.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
You can buy life only with life.
Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
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